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Board approves travel and facility items; safety plan and fees pass by voice vote
Summary
At its Oct. 2 meeting, the Batavia board approved Winter Guard and varsity hockey trip requests, grouped consent items, a district safety plan and a facilities fee schedule. Motions were approved by voice votes; individual tallies were not recorded in the public transcript.
The Batavia City School District Board of Education approved several administrative motions by voice vote at its Oct. 2 meeting, including travel requests for extracurricular groups, grouped consent items, a district safety plan and a facilities fee schedule.
Approved items recorded on the transcript include:
- Approval of Winter Guard trips as presented. Janet Melander, director of Batavia Winterguards, described plans to attend two out-of-area regionals in February and March and outlined fundraising and chaperone arrangements. The board moved and seconded the trip approval and approved it by voice vote.
- Approval of varsity hockey travel to the BC Classic (Thanksgiving tournament) and the varsity schedule as presented. Coach Mark Staley described rosters and travel arrangements, noting players travel with parents and the district grants permission for the team to compete. The board moved, seconded and approved the request by voice vote.
- Grouping of consent items (items e through k on the agenda) was approved by motion and voice vote.
- Approval of the Batavia City Schools (BCS) safety plan as an old-business item was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote.
- Approval of a facilities fee schedule related to the district’s use-of-school-facilities regulation was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. The transcript records that the regulation number was stated verbally but was unclear in the record; the public minutes should be consulted for the formal regulation citation.
The transcript does not record roll-call vote counts or individual member votes for these actions; approvals were recorded by voice ("all in favor") rather than enumerated tallies. When a specific mover or seconder was not identified in the transcript, the meeting record shows only that a board member moved or seconded the motion.
Other procedural actions noted in the transcript included a motion to adjourn into an executive session to discuss collective negotiations and personnel matters; that motion was moved and seconded and approved by voice vote. The board did not return to public session following the executive session during the recorded meeting.
For formal minute verification (vote counts, recorded individual votes, ordinance/regulation numbers), the district’s published meeting minutes and agenda packet should be consulted; the public transcript records only voice approvals without roll-call tallies.
